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Corporate Partners
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Altria
In 2009, Altria committed $600,000 for water
conservation, sustainable agriculture, and pollution projects in the
Chesapeake, Great Leaks, and Delaware estuaries. The projects improve
water quality by investing in effective conservation and restoration
practices, and to facilitate and accelerate local implementation of the
most innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective strategies for
restoring and protecting water quality and vital habitats. On-the-ground
work has included harvesting rainwater for reuse on poultry farms,
developing homeowner incentive programs for residential storm water
management, and restoring 500 acres of wetlands on the Delmarva
Peninsula.
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Anheuser-Busch / Budweiser
Now in its 15th year of supporting NFWF, Anheuser-Busch has helped to
enable wildlife habitat restoration, improve public access, educate
future leaders in conservation, and conserve the nation’s outdoor
heritage. One program, “Help Budweiser Help the
Outdoors,” has generated over $8.7 million since inception to
support important conservation efforts throughout the United States and
Canada including projects that help protect critical waterfowl breeding
habitat in North and South Dakota, restore important quail habitat in
California and the Southeastern and Southwestern US, improve deer
management practices in several eastern states, and restore important
wintering habitat for elk in the Rocky Mountains.
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ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal has committed $2.1 million over three
years to sponsor the Great Lakes
Watershed Restoration Program. The program
helps restore the ecological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin by
supporting collaborative approaches to restoration of wetlands and other
critical fish and wildlife habitat. Outcomes of the program include:
restoration of more than 8,000 acres of wetland, shoreline and upland
habitat; restoration of fish passage to more than 400 stream miles; and,
training and educating of more than 6.500 students, teachers,
volunteers, and residents.
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Bank of America
Bank of America offers a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
branded credit card. Every purchase made with this card helps NFWF to
carry out our mission of sustaining, restoring, and enhancing the
nation’s fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
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Bass Pro Shops
Bass Pro Shops and Johnny Morris Foundation have committed $5 million
over five years to launch the More Fish Campaign that helps support fish
habitat protection, enhancement, and restoration projects nationally,
with particular emphasis on engaging agencies, anglers, and other
conservation groups at Table Rock Lake and the White River watershed in
Arkansas and Missouri to improve fish habitat and water quality.
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Bed Bath & Beyond
In 2008 Bed Bath & Beyond began a partnership with NFWF where $1
from the sale of reusable shopping bags is donated to NFWF to support
marine and coastal programs across the country, from restoring water
quality in the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound to protecting sea turtles
and seabirds from harmful marine debris.
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BP
For more than seven years, BP Alaska has partnered with NFWF and
provided support for vital research on Beaufort Sea polar bear
populations in Alaska and Canada to determine their distribution, use of
sea ice, den locations, impacts from noise, and population numbers. BP
has also helped to establish the Alaska Sea Duck Fund to monitor
imperiled sea duck populations, with an emphasis on the eiders. In 2008,
BP contributed to the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Fund.
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Chevron
In 2008, Chevron Alaska helped to support the development of
non-invasive photo-identification techniques of the Cook Inlet beluga
whales in order to identify individuals and get a more accurate
population estimate. Since the Cook Inlet beluga whales were listed as
endangered species in fall 2008, this program is vital to NOAA and other
partners to help develop recovery plans for the species.
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ConocoPhillips
ConocoPhillips and NFWF have worked together for more than 17 years.
Our most recent partnership, the ConocoPhillips SPIRIT of Conservation
Migratory Bird Program, was launched in 2005 and is a focused and
strategic initiative to conserve threatened birds and their habitats
around the world. Over the past four years, the SPIRIT program has
provided funding for 39 projects in ten states and five
countries. More than 84,000 acres of priority bird habitats have been
protected or enhanced as a result of these awards. In addition,
ConocoPhillips in Alaska has partnered with NFWF for the past six years
to support polar bear research and Cook Inlet beluga whale conservation
projects.
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Covanta Energy
Fishing for Energy is a partnership consisting of the Covanta Energy, NFWF, NOAA
and Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. which provides a no-cost solution
to fishermen to dispose of old, derelict or unusable fishing gear and
works to reduce the amount of derelict fishing gear in and around
coastal waterways.
Launched in 2008, the
partnership continues to work closely with state and local agencies,
community and fisherman groups, and local ports to install bins at
convenient and strategic locations where fishermen can easily dispose of
gear. When these bins fill up, the gear is collected and transported to
a nearby Schnitzer Steel facility where the metal is recovered for
recycling and rope or nets are sheared for easier disposal. From there
it is brought to a nearby Covanta Energy-from-Waste facility where the
gear is converted into clean, renewable electricity for local
communities. Over 300 tons or 700,000 pounds of gear has been collected
to-date.
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ExxonMobil
Since its launch in 1995, ExxonMobil has invested in
the Save The Tiger
Fund’s vision for tiger conservation.
The Fund has supported 300 projects in 13 out of the 14 tiger range
countries with $15 million through a partnership between ExxonMobil
Foundation, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, and NFWF. The Fund
is one of the largest corporate commitments ever to save an endangered
species. It has taken a multifaceted approach to tiger conservation that
serves as an umbrella for the preservation of habitat and biodiversity.
This partnership supports field studies to develop better tiger
management plans, tiger conservation education programs, efforts to
curtail poaching and illegal trade of tiger parts, efforts to resolve
human-tiger conflicts, and activities that protect and restore tiger
habitats.
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FedEx
Through EarthSmart Outreach, FedEx has identified 12 U.S. cities
where it will fund urban conservation projects in 2010 and 2011. The
goal of the campaign is to transform cities to make them cleaner, more
accessible and vibrant places to live and work with cleaner water and a
better quality of life. Through FedEx team member engagement, the
projects will restore watersheds, improve air quality, perform
environmental stewardship activities, and foster community environmental
education.
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The Orvis Company
Since 1987, Orvis and NFWF have partnered to protect and restore
native fish and wildlife habitat by raising public awareness and
engaging communities in stewardship activities. The Orvis Partnership
Program supports projects dedicated to the acquisition, restoration,
enhancement, or long-term protection of native fish and wildlife
habitat.
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PG&E Corporation
Since 1999, PG&E has partnered with NFWF on the Nature
Restoration Trust: Empowering Communities program that supports habitat
restoration within PG&E’s service districts in California.
PG&E and NFWF facilitate conservation at the local level by
empowering communities to take care of native habitats and species and
engaging youth in hands-on restoration.
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Shell Oil Company
Since 1998, the Shell Marine Habitat Program, a
partnership between NFWF and the Shell Oil Company, has supported
conservation projects that benefit marine and coastal habitats and
species in the Gulf of Mexico and, more recently, Long Island Sound and
Alaska. Through this partnership, 171 grants have helped more than 120
organizations conserve and restore marine habitat and more than $43
million in grants and matching funds has been put to work for marine
conservation. The Shell Marine Habitat Program has played a critical
role in the conservation of the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea
turtle, which is now recovering along the Texas coast. Shell also helped
NFWF establish the Shell Polar Bear Fund to assist with population
research on the north slope of Alaska.
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Southern Company
Southern Company has been a partner of NFWF’s since 2002 with
the launch of the Power of Flight Bird Conservation Fund, which
protects birds through habitat and species restoration and environmental
education. More than 134,000 acres of wildlife habitat have benefitted
from the program. In 2004, NFWF and
Southern Company embarked on another partnership, the
Longleaf Legacy Program, which helps to restore and conserve
the longleaf pine ecosystem and sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Through this program, more than 29,000 acres will be planted with 8
million seedlings. In 2006, Southern Company signed on for a third
program with NFWF by becoming the first corporate partner in the Five
Star Restoration Grant Program that supports community-based wetland,
riparian, and coastal habitat restoration. Southern Company has
supported projects that collectively restored more than 10,200 acres of
wetland and coastal habitat, and close to 46,000 feet of riparian
buffer. All programs are implemented within the Southern Company service
area of Georgia, Alabama, northwestern Florida, and southeastern
Mississippi.
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Syngenta
To create and restore on-farm bee habitats, the Foundation has
teamed with Syngenta to launch Operation Pollinator™, a
global initiative taking flight over the next four years in
California, Florida and Michigan. The program will
bring together university researchers, government agencies and
nongovernmental organizations to help growers in these key
horticultural states establish pollinator habitats by planting low-cost,
nectar-rich seed mixtures on marginal land near their crops.
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Walmart
Acres for America was created in 2005 as a novel way for the
corporate world and the conservation community to work cooperatively to
conserve vital wildlife habitat for future generations. Walmart launched
the program with a commitment of $35 million over 10 years to
permanently conserve at least one acre of priority wildlife habitat for
every acre developed for the company’s facilities. After four
years, the partnership has already surpassed Walmart’s goal by
conserving three times the amount of acreage originally planned; 13
projects have been funded in 13 states and Walmart’s funds have
helped to permanently conserve more than 412,000 acres of habitat.
Walmart is the first major retail store to offset its land development
footprint with permanently protected conservation lands.
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